According to an international team , some of the strongest and most reliable domed ceilings can be built by more closely imitating the semi-irregular geometric patterns seen in dragonfly wings.

Breaking the pattern: How disorder toughens materials Engineers tweak metamaterial geometry to increase toughness Date: February 17, 2025 Source: University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering ...

Then, in 2023, Kaplan and collaborators stunned the mathematics world when they found the elusive einstein tile — a single shape that can fill a floor only with a never-repeating pattern ...

Is it possible to tile a surface with a single shape in such a way that the pattern never repeats itself? In 2022, a mathematical solution to this 'Einstein problem' was discovered for the first time.